Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops… —Proverbs 3:9.
Honoring God must come first in everything. We don’t give him the last, the least, or the leftovers. He gave us his best, most precious, and most perfect of gifts — his Son Jesus and the indwelling Holy Spirit. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gifts! How could we give him anything less than our best, our first, and our most precious — our firstfruits in everything!
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. —Romans 13:1.
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy—1 Peter 2:10. Excluded. Rejected.
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his
